[SOLVED] Nginx redirection loop after upgrading to Debian Bullseye

Nextcloud version : 21.0.2-1~deb11
Operating system and version : Debian bullseye
Nginx version : 1.18.0-6.1
PHP version : 7.4.21-1+deb11u1

Hello.

This morning, I’ve updated my working Debian Buster server to Debian Bullseye.
As I expected, it’s been a mess migrating from php 7.3 to 7.4, so I tried to reconfigure my nginx config file from scratch using latest admin guide.

I’m facing a redirection loop I cannot fix:
rewrite or internal redirection cycle while processing "/nextcloud/index.php/nextcloud/status.php"
directory index of "/var/www/nextcloud/" is forbidden

I’ve spent a few hours googling and trying, without success.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Here’s my config.php

$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'masked',
  'passwordsalt' => 'masked',
  'secret' => 'masked',
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => 'nextcloud.cumbalero.com',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '21.0.2.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://nextcloud.mydomain',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'dbuser' => 'nextclouduser',
  'dbpassword' => 'masked',
  'installed' => true,
  'upgrade.disable-web' => 'true',
  'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
  'loglevel' => 2,
  'maintenance' => false,
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'theme' => '',
  'mail_domain' => 'mydomain',
  'mail_from_address' => 'nextcloud',
  'mail_smtphost' => 'localhost',
  'mail_smtpport' => '25',
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'app_install_overwrite' => 
  array (
    0 => 'ocsms',
  ),
  'has_rebuilt_cache' => true,
);

and my nextcloud nginx config file:

upstream php-handler {
    #server 127.0.0.1:9000;
    server unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name nextcloud.mydomain;

    # Enforce HTTPS just for `/nextcloud`
    location /nextcloud {
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}

server {
    listen 443      ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name nextcloud.mydomain;
    ssl_certificate PATH_TO/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key PATH_TO/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot

    # HSTS settings
    # WARNING: Only add the preload option once you read about
    # the consequences in https://hstspreload.org/. This option
    # will add the domain to a hardcoded list that is shipped
    # in all major browsers and getting removed from this list
    # could take several months.
    #add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload;" always;

    # Path to the root of the domain
    root /var/www/nextcloud;

    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location /.well-known {
        # The following 6 rules are borrowed from `.htaccess`

        rewrite ^/\.well-known/host-meta\.json  /nextcloud/public.php?service=host-meta-json    last;
        rewrite ^/\.well-known/host-meta        /nextcloud/public.php?service=host-meta         last;
        rewrite ^/\.well-known/webfinger        /nextcloud/public.php?service=webfinger         last;
        rewrite ^/\.well-known/nodeinfo         /nextcloud/public.php?service=nodeinfo          last;

        location = /.well-known/carddav   { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }
        location = /.well-known/caldav    { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }

        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ^~ /nextcloud {
        # set max upload size
        client_max_body_size 512M;
        fastcgi_buffers 64 4K;

        # Enable gzip but do not remove ETag headers
        gzip on;
        gzip_vary on;
        gzip_comp_level 4;
        gzip_min_length 256;
        gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private no_last_modified no_etag auth;
        gzip_types application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/vnd.rim.location.xloc text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy;

        # Pagespeed is not supported by Nextcloud, so if your server is built
        # with the `ngx_pagespeed` module, uncomment this line to disable it.
        #pagespeed off;

        # HTTP response headers borrowed from Nextcloud `.htaccess`
        add_header Referrer-Policy                      "no-referrer"   always;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options               "nosniff"       always;
        add_header X-Download-Options                   "noopen"        always;
        add_header X-Frame-Options                      "SAMEORIGIN"    always;
        add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies    "none"          always;
        add_header X-Robots-Tag                         "none"          always;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection                     "1; mode=block" always;

        # Remove X-Powered-By, which is an information leak
        fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;

        # Specify how to handle directories -- specifying `/nextcloud/index.php$request_uri`
        # here as the fallback means that Nginx always exhibits the desired behaviour
        # when a client requests a path that corresponds to a directory that exists
        # on the server. In particular, if that directory contains an index.php file,
        # that file is correctly served; if it doesn't, then the request is passed to
        # the front-end controller. This consistent behaviour means that we don't need
        # to specify custom rules for certain paths (e.g. images and other assets,
        # `/updater`, `/ocm-provider`, `/ocs-provider`), and thus
        # `try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri`
        # always provides the desired behaviour.
        index index.php index.html /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;

        # Rule borrowed from `.htaccess` to handle Microsoft DAV clients
        location = /nextcloud {
            if ( $http_user_agent ~ ^DavClnt ) {
                return 302 /nextcloud/remote.php/webdav/$is_args$args;
            }
        }

        # Rules borrowed from `.htaccess` to hide certain paths from clients
        location ~ ^/nextcloud/(?:build|tests|config|lib|3rdparty|templates|data)(?:$|/)    { return 404; }
        location ~ ^/nextcloud/(?:\.|autotest|occ|issue|indie|db_|console)                { return 404; }

        # Ensure this block, which passes PHP files to the PHP process, is above the blocks
        # which handle static assets (as seen below). If this block is not declared first,
        # then Nginx will encounter an infinite rewriting loop when it prepends
        # `/nextcloud/index.php` to the URI, resulting in a HTTP 500 error response.
        location ~ \.php(?:$|/) {
            # Required for legacy support
            rewrite ^/(?!index|remote|public|cron|core\/ajax\/update|status|ocs\/v[12]|updater\/.+|oc[ms]-provider\/.+|.+\/richdocumentscode\/proxy) /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;

            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
            set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;

            try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;

            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
            fastcgi_param HTTPS on;

            fastcgi_param modHeadersAvailable true;         # Avoid sending the security headers twice
            fastcgi_param front_controller_active true;     # Enable pretty urls
            fastcgi_pass php-handler;

            fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
            fastcgi_request_buffering off;
        }

        location ~ \.(?:css|js|svg|gif)$ {
            try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
            expires 6M;         # Cache-Control policy borrowed from `.htaccess`
            access_log off;     # Optional: Don't log access to assets
        }

        location ~ \.woff2?$ {
            try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
            expires 7d;         # Cache-Control policy borrowed from `.htaccess`
            access_log off;     # Optional: Don't log access to assets
        }

        location /nextcloud {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
        }
    }
}

Sorry i do not use nginx. But it think this rule match. Perhaps you can delete or modify the line.

Here is additional an installation guide for Nextcloud and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but also nginx / PHP 7.4. Perhaps you can use parts with Debian Bullseye, too.

How to Install Nextcloud with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Thank you for this helpfull link.

Actually, it appears that I had several issues during the OS upgrade, I had to force reinstallation of php modules (php -m showed me few of them were loaded).

I used the nginx conf file to fix mine.

My nextcloud instance is back online ! :grinning: